Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Rapid Fire - 11/15

The deadline for my Legal Methods memo was pushed back by two days to Wednesday. Now I won't have thoughts of "...but my memo!" running through my head while I'm catching up with old friends this weekend.

The GOP leaders have learned nothing, apparently. First they had perfect candidate Michael Steele waiting in the wings to be RNC chairman, who would lead the charge of bringing back conservative values to the Republican Party... and they hire weak-on-immigration Mel Martinez instead. Now we're dusting off Trent Lott to be Senate minority whip? UGH! We need FRESH CONSERVATIVE FACES. Not has-beens and RINOs! Sigh.... so, how's that Constitution Party looking these days?

I like Wake's basketball team. I didn't say they're going to be very good, I just like them. Ish "The Dish" Smith looks like the real deal, Fear the Viss is in full effect, and L.D. Williams can jump out of the building. This team's also shown some resiliency, coming back to win from double digit deficits in their first two games. And please don't scoff at Bucknell taking us to overtime; they're a Patriot League giant killer, playing in their building, in maybe the biggest game of their season. It was a good win.



That's all I got today folks. I've been working non-stop on this memo and havn't had much time for extra curricular thinking. So with the memo and my trip to Winston-Salem, don't expect any updates until at least Monday.

4 comments:

David Ford said...

"The GOP leaders have learned nothing, apparently. First they had perfect candidate Michael Steele waiting in the wings to be RNC chairman, who would lead the charge of bringing back conservative values to the Republican Party... and they hire weak-on-immigration Mel Martinez instead."

Disagreement can be expressed to one's state GOP committee. I sent this to the DC office:

hey, RNC: we need the fighter Michael Steele
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1163600733.375987.203360%40k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

Anonymous said...

I thought I already commented on this post, but I don't see it...

Yay for later deadlines!

Booo commies!

I don't like Wake's team. I just hope we can crawl out of the cellar.

And here's an interesting article agreeing with me that we haven't achieved payroll parity yet: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=cnnsi-whataboutthelit&prov=cnnsi&type=lgns

Tom said...

ah another reader! i feel like i should dress up.

no argument from me on the lack of payroll parity of major league baseball.

the luxury tax has had an interesting effect, though. it was targeted to control the spending of the yankees, but instead it has controlled the spending of everyone else. the yankees have enough cash to bear the burden of spending vastly over the "soft cap" limit. that's dangerous territory for any other team. the red sox, for example, are typically right below the luxury tax threshold.

Anonymous said...

This luxury tax thing is worthless. There ought to be a hard cap at like 120 million. But the players won't take it b/c it means less money for them. At least you can count on the Yankees to overpay old players so they can't buy a championship.